Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 June 2014

A slight departure

On Wednesday I had a sneaky couple of hours experimenting with The TooFatLardies Chain of Command, in mate Dr. Simon's splendid new wargaming shed.


We are playing a simple scenario set in North Africa, 1941.


Part way through the first turn, my Afrika Korps are getting rather shot-up by the 8th Army; already two are dead, and the shock markers are building up.  I hope to get another turn in, next week, time permitting.  By the way, those are the old Zama, boards; the gift that keeps on giving!  :-)

Neither of us are familiar with the rules, so we were finding our way as we went along.  I would say that the rules did seem to be fairly clear, though, and relatively simple, and I am already formulating a plan for using them in a rather unorthodox fashion...

Friday, 19 July 2013

Ice Cold in Alexandra Palace

Last night, inspired by the sweltering heat in these parts, we played a Western Desert game with my venerable army of microtanks, and my adapted Memoir '44 rules.


Above the British "defenders" dig in on what passes for terrain.  Below, the German anti-tank screen moves forward.


The British so-called "defenders" attacked from the outset, and eventually left much of the Afrika Corps burning in the desert!  This was down to a combination of superb cards and inspired play; one air attack, alone, took out most of an artillery regiment and also a battery of 88's.

In place of Heineken, we drank a chilled Italian wine.

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

A prodigy!

Those who know of BigRedBat's famous aversion to anything that smacks of skirmish gaming, will be suprised to see these photos of yesterday's outbreak of WW2 in the BigRedBatCave.

Here the men of the Afrika Korps advance through the sparse fields outside a small North African village...

...where the defending tommies are dug in (with two of the worst sited machine guns in military history; there was more dead ground than you'd find in Highgate Cemetary, East and West, added together!).

We played a very enjoyable game using the Tide of Iron boardgame rules.  I think we will be using these, a lot. All the very nicely painted figures belong to my fellow Muswell Militiaman, Dr. Simon, and my friend Ian provided the rules and umpired.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

And now for something completely different...

I played a 1941 Western Desert game last night, with Ian "Erwin" Notter, using adapted Memoir '44 rules (you can see Rommel's "hand" in the background).  We commanded roughly a brigade each. 

 
These minis are absolutely ancient; when I last played with them, Consul was but a gleam in his father's eye.

I launched an attack on the right, then an attack in the centre.  Here my lancers are about to bravely charge the enemy anti-tank screen (successfully as it turned out, although they had all perished by the end of the game).  

There was gratuitous destruction, with more than half the total troops on the table slaughtered, before we called it a night.  The central ridge changed hand half a dozen times.  At one point a panzer company broke through to the British gun line, but was destroyed by the gunners firing over open sights.  I think I may have gained a moral victory...